Would you get married while your fiance has bad credit?

It's amazing to me how many people look at something like a credit score to determine who a person is. I had bad credit when my wife married me. Mine was at a horrible 501, hers was at 760. I paid off a majority of my debts before we were married. I had a couple of judgments, but I paid those debts off before any garnishments happened. I had several collections, in fact, almost all of my revolving credit accounts were in collections. Two things contributed to my low score. I lost my job, but the main thing was that I was rather uneducated when it came to credit, and made some bad bad bad choices. I was barely able to make minimum payments when I had the job. I did what I could to pay everything, but it just wasn't enough. I worked on a man's farm picking tomatoes for $6.00 an hour. I mowed lawns, cleaned houses, I even picked up and saved over 400 pounds of aluminum cans. I finally was able to get a good, high paying and steady job after 6 months. In that time, I had made my credit go from 721 down to 501. It stayed that way for quite a while. I was able to pay off quite a bit before marriage, but not all. She was very understanding, and even helped me make a budget and plan to get out from under that burden. I asked her if she wanted to wait to get married, or sign a prenup, and she elected neither. I regret the mistakes I made, but the idea that someone who has a bad score is a deadbeat is way off base. A credit score doesn't say very much to credibility. What it says is that the bills haven't been paid as agreed. I did, however, pay them. Just as a side note, if anyone has something in collections, just pay the original creditor the money, not the collection agency. That's what I did. I am doing my best to rebuild my good name and credit history so that it won't hols us back. We have a joint checking and savings account. Credit cards (which we have frozen in a glass of water in the freezer so that we can't easily and readily get to them {my idea, btw}) are separate. I wanted to ensure that no matter what, we could safeguard her credit, because it is hard to keep a good credit rating. That said, people with bad credit are still people. FICO can't sum up any character or integrity by putting a number to it. There are many deadbeats, yes, but to allow a number to represent the person for you is to concede your ability to make judments about character.